Nehemiah J. Crockett

Nehemiah Jonathan Crockett (13 June 1829-8 October 1901) was a Colonel of the Tennessee State Militia of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Nehemiah Jonathan Crockett was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee on 13 June 1829 to a Dixie family, and he worked as a lawyer and a state militia colonel. When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, his regiment was pressed into the Confederate States Army, and it served under John Bell Hood as a part of his Army of Tennessee. In 1864, the army was routed at the Battle of Nashville, and Crockett was captured during the retreat. He would be paroled near the war's end, and he retired to his hometown in 1865. He worked as a lawyer for many years after the war's end, and he died in 1901.